My Bloody Valentine to Perform At, Curate All Tomorrow's Parties Festival

My Bloody Valentine will make their long-awaited return to the U.S. stage at the New York version of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, to be held in Monticello, NY, on September 19-21. MBV will also curate the fest. So far, frontman Kevin Shields has recruited four artists to perform classic records in their entirety, with Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On, Thurston Moore's solo Psychic Hearts and the Meat Puppets' II getting the full album treatment. Other MBV-approved bands performing are Shellac, Autolux, Mogwai and more. The ATP show would mark MBV's U.S. concert since July 1992. The band will also reportedly add six to eight more shows. Tickets for the event at the not-exactly-mammoth Kutshers Country Club in Monticello go on sale Friday at ATPFestival.com.

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“Youth Knows No Pain”

Lykke Li | 2011

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”

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